Tests & Measurements - PSY 3213C - Research Methods in Psychology - UCF Research Guides at University of Central Florida Libraries

Getting Started

APA Page "Finding Information about Psychological Tests"

Databases

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCOhost) (1985+)
Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of commercially published tests. The database includes all information published after the 10th edition (1989) of the Mental Measurements Yearbook.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) (1985+)
HaPI identifies tests and measures that have been discussed in journal articles and other sources. In some cases, the test itself is included in the journal article. In other cases, only sample questions are included.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) provides information about behavioral measurement tools used across diverse professions and disciplines, including medicine, nursing, public health, psychology, social work, sociology, communication, and organizational behavior. HaPI helps researchers, students, and clinicians locate questionnaires, interviews, and other tests relevant to their investigations, theses, dissertations, and grant proposals and helps researchers to enhance the quality, reliability, and validity of their measurement techniques.
APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+)
To locate a test, type keywords related to your topic. In the second search box, type the word "appended" and select "TM Tests and measures" from the menu. To locate articles that evaluate the validity or reliability of a test, enter the name of the test in quotation marks in the first search box and then type the keywords "validity and reliability" in the second search box.
"contains approximately 5 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with DOIs for over 1.4 million records. Ninety-eight percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,400 periodicals in dozens of languages."
Psychological Abstracts:
* 1927-1947 Microfilm BF1.P65
* 1948-2004 print in remote storage

CINAHL Ultimate (EBSCOhost) (1937+)
To locate a test, type keywords related to your topic and choose "IN Instrumentation" from the menu. Or type keywords related to your topic, then type "questionnaire/scale" and choose "PT Publication Type" from the menu
ERIC (EBSCOhost) (1966+)
Type keywords related to your topic, then type "tests/questionnaires" and choose "PU Publication Type" from the menu.
ERIC is available from several database vendors, including ProQuest. UCF students are advised to use ERIC in EBSCOhost, which provides many links to full text and allows users to search multiple education databases simultaneously. Users who are not UCF students are advised to use ERIC from DOE because no login is required.
ERIC + Education Research Index (1966+)
Education Research Index combines ERIC, the leading education research database produced by the U.S. Department of Education, with the new Supplemental Education Index, which was created to expand upon the current scope of ERIC. Together, they offer journal articles, reports, documents, books, all indexed with the ERIC vocabulary for a unified search experience.
Users who are not UCF students are advised to use ERIC from DOE because no login is required.